J.B. Killebrew's Recollections of My Life, circa 1898

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J.B. Killebrew's Recollections of My Life, circa 1898

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Autobiography of Joseph Buckner Killebrew consisting of the personal, social, professional, and political memoirs of his early life and schooling in Montgomery County, Tenn.; education at the University of North Carolina, 1854-1856; antebellum life as a young lawyer and planter at Clarksville, Tenn.; the Civil War, during which he remained at home managing his farms, and Reconstruction; and his public career, 1870s through 1890s, as editor of an agricultural newspaper, state superintendent of public instruction, state commissioner of agriculture, author of a book on the agricultural and industrial resources of Tennessee, and investor in Mexican mines. The autobiography describes in detail Killebrew's activities, opinions, and social milieu. Also included is a history of the Whitfield, Bryan, Ligon, Sims, and Wimberly families.

2 volumes (798 pages)

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906

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Native of Montgomery County, Tenn.; agriculture editor of the Nashville Union and American; Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction for Tennessee; state agent for the Peabody Fund; Secretary of the Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture, Statistics, Mines and Immigration; immigration agent and industrial agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway; editor of Southern Farm magazine. From the description of Joseph Buckner Killebrew family papers, 1797-1906. (Tennessee ...